When is digital going to get the soul of music?

But, what about the soul of the music? Tvad, you have to admit that it is a catchy title? I think I evaluate reproduced music now by how it affects me after I've listened. Things like changing my mood, relaxing me, getting the serotonin going. Guidocorona, I told Aplhifi that it made me tense at first, but later that went away. It had definitely affected me positively after the listening session was done. I only heard one song comparing Oritek X-2's and Aplhifi's interconnects. I know you've heard this before, but I need more time to compare.

I have to mention one more thing about listening at Aplhifi. The high I get from listening to reproduced music was more pronounced and longer lasting than I get from my system. I thought maybe it was due to tubes, as Gunbei suggests. Aplhifi has a tube output, I believe, on his player and his amp has a tube input. I took a look at Aplhifi's web-site, and there might be more to it. Maybe Aplhifi can say something on this?

Mmakshak, thank you for coming over! I have to say that your (Ori's) cables were among the best Copper cables I've heard, very nice.

The Nat King Cole was Steve Hoffman's amazing work (DCC) made from the original Analog Master Tape. It was not Reference Recordings although these are really great as well.

I would also agree with you that Analog recordings have "more soul" than all Digital ones, but again, this comes to implementation because everything starts with Analog anyway. :)

Keep in touch! May be you can come back here again, this time with Ori.

Regards,
Alex

I seem to have it; and to make matters worse, it is from a computer based system! I know that anything I would think would be suspect; after all who hates their own work?

But I have quite a few listeners over from time to time, and they get to remark on my failures (plenty of those) as well as my successes. The remarks I am getting now all the usual superlatives but what really matters is that they wont leave!

The trick? Digital eq/xover; done well it is an amazing thing. I did try the Deqx, which is a fine product, but found it dynamically...er...off. But the vastly cheaper DBX unit captures the dynamic life of music (makes sense,perhaps, in that it is design for use in live music). Though I have tube gear (SET and OTL) SS is what rules here. Emotion is the reason for music, and it is what I have here.